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Marinera Norteña

Also known as handkerchief courtship dance

Marinera Norteña: photograph by Miguel Vera León from Santiago, Chile
Photo: Miguel Vera León from Santiago, Chile, CC BY 2.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Two dancers flirt with waving handkerchiefs.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Peru.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of The Americas: Andes and South America.

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